The /OOC problem:

[BigTB]

Originally Posted by BigTB [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

nope, the fact we are even debating this is redonk.

server health flew with addition of global ooc

its the only thing that has kept pop going.

taking it away during our best chance for server growth? so. fucking. dum.

ban for racism/vulgarity? sure
(give warnings first)

but for the love of gawd leave it in.

[tehruoh]

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[Swampfeet]

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[Beastro]

Fuck I know from VZTZ how much shit litters /occ, but I never turned it off let alone wished it to be removed.

Really. If /ooc on here is as bad as it was on that server then I know the kind of filth being said, but why the fuck would get rid of it.

Ignore it. Put it in its own chat box or turn it a colour that blends in well with background so that it doesn't stand out to be unconsciously read.

People demanding its removal are as much griefers as those who use it to grief.

[Akim]

People demanding its removal are as much griefers as those who use it to grief.

[Beastro]

Originally Posted by Akim [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

People demanding its removal are as much griefers as those who use it to grief.

Global ooc has it's uses.

Just ignore it when you don't need it.

[BigTB]

This is what the server will turn into without global ooc

(found this in blue forums, drunk and medding)

Originally Posted by sedrie.bellamie [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I stopped playing around 2005 or 2006 and really liked the planes of knowledge for how simple it made moving around. But at that point in EQ I was not playing with other players. From 1999 to around 2002 I was really active on the Karana sever and the Nameless but never to high of level. I always enjoyed the right of passage it was for my characters to go to places like the oasis and find groups.

But my later on experiences with EQ changed with more content. I remember when Velious came out and the old world and Kunark just died off. And then by the times of the planes the old world was empty except for people factioning or working on epics.

My last few years in EQ my friends and I stayed pretty low level and stayed in lower guk pretty much exclusively. We were bound at the pots in TD and could use those to get to gfay to click the PoK book. I remember buying some clarity potions but it was all about getting KEI and awesome shaman buffs that would last hours.

My highest character was a 55 troll shaman that I didnt level past that just so I could farm AAs in lower guk. Sounds stupid I know but it was fun. My friends where a cleric, a shadow knight, and a monk.

When we would LAN we would set these characters up at some loot spawns. I remember using the Shaman to kill some gnome on the moon behind a locked door. The gnome dropped some boots that sold for like 300 plat. So the shaman would sit in the locked room and kill the gnome, bear form allowed the shaman to pop its head partly out the door. The cleric would then take the boots and sell them. The monk we would stock up with dispell stones and have him solo the efferti in sol b. Then the shadow knight would usually solo some named giant in velious, I don't remember the zone name but it was a huge tower and the shadow knight could single pull him to the bottom.

We would get these guys in their place and then use other computers to play something like Quake or Counterstrike. Maybe just play the Dreamcast or just get drunk and watch the Ali G HBO show.

The end of Everquest came when it just lost its fun. When you can no longer kill the same pixels over and over. And that is what I like and p99. I can kill the same pixels over and over again.

Like how some people replay Chrono Trigger or whatever game, over and over again. Playing p99 is like a trip in the way back machine that is something special.

[bamzal]

that story brought tears to my eyes